Classics of Children's Literature - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0023472901 ISBN 13: 9780023472909

Publisher: Macmillan Coll Div

Synopsis

Presents some of the "masterpieces" of children's literature including Mother Goose verses, fairy tales, works by Lear, Ruskin, Carroll, Twain, Stevenson, Baum, Grahame, Kipling, Dickens, Wilder, and more.

About this title

From the Publisher

This anthology provides--in a convenient, readable and economical format--the most celebrated and enduring children's literary works in the English-speaking tradition. Its unique approach presents novels, stories, fairy tales, nursery rhymes and poems in their entirety. The Fourth Edition expands coverage by including more selections of enduring masterpieces.

From the Back Cover

This anthology provides—in a convenient, readable and economical format—the most celebrated and enduring children's literary works in the English-speaking tradition. Its unique approach presents novels, stories, fairy tales, nursery rhymes and poems in their entirety. The authors' objective is to make readily available to all students the full texts of genuine literary milestones—works that demonstrate the dignity, vitality, and durability of children's classics. These include Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, London's The Call of the Wild, and more in a gender-balanced, well-edited, well-introduced assortment of the most profoundly imaginative, highly significant, and genuinely classic works in children's literature. For those interested in literature, children's literature, the history of children's literature, or library science.

Edition details

• Publisher: Macmillan Coll Div
• ISBN 10: 0023472901
• ISBN 13: 9780023472909
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 1408